Arizona Gold Prospecting Danger

Arizona Gold Prospecting Danger

The Bark Scorpion – the DEADLIEST Scorpion in the United States!

Although the Scorpions are out mostly at night, gold prospector should keep in mind that during the day they are usually in the shade, in between rocks and often occupying other animal holes or the cool entrances to abandoned mines.

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Large Arizona Gold Nuggets

Large Arizona Gold Nuggets

Working in the Monsoon Summer season in a dry wash bottom. 

We are hand placering the wash using digging tools, rakes and metal detectors/pinpointers to recover the gold. Here in this video we recovered two massive gold nuggets, one was 2.2 ounces and the other was right at 1 ounce. (more…)

Gold Metal Detecting

Gold Metal Detecting

This is one of my archived videos about gold metal detecting. But, although the video is a number of years old oh, the basic concepts that I talked about are still very relevant today.

I’ve been into gold detecting for many years. On many detecting trips that’s all I find is what’s pictured here in this video and that’s trash. But, when you do find that little gold nugget, it kind of makes up for all the times you just find trash. (more…)